Construction is underway to transform Building 80 into the home of the new Department of African and African American Studies. The space will open in fall 2025.

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First-year student Serena Young conducts sociological observations in Stanford’s White Plaza to see how the plaza and pavilion are used by community members. Her observations and interviews, and those of other volunteers, will go toward a larger assessment of Stanford’s public spaces.

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Photographer LiPo Ching captures a rainbow on a winter day at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Ching produced stunning images of the preserve for a photo story about seasonal change at this unique H&S education and research site.

Photo by Dan Quinn, JRBP docent

Vanessa Barone [seated right], assistant professor of biology in H&S, meets with members of two lab teams in the collaboration space of the newly opened Molecular and Cellular Biodiversity Imaging Center at Hopkins Marine Station.

 Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University

History student Christian Robles-Baez explores part of the digital collection at Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center during a tour organized by the Department of History to familiarize its students with the center's resources.

Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University.

Lerone A. Martin, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor and professor of Religious Studies and of African and African American Studies in H&S speaks at the 2025 King & Faith Symposium at Memorial Church: The Day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Came to Stanford. Attendees watched a recording of Dr. King’s 1967 speech at Stanford.

Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University.

Ato Quayson, professor of African and African American Studies and English, points out a photo to colleague Gavin Jones, professor of English, at the opening of the Urban Ghana Photography Exhibition, curated by Katie Dieter, director of advanced studies and community-engaged learning in the Department of African and African American Studies. The October exhibition featured photos from students who participated in a Bing Overseas Studies Program global seminar in Ghana taught by Quayson.

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Dean Debra Satz speaks passionately at the welcome reception for the inaugural group of H&S Dean’s Scholars Fellowship recipients. Learn more about the fellowship.

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The conversation continues after the Democracy and Disagreement session on Israel and Palestine. Featured speakers Salam Fayyad and Alon Tal talk with students, and session moderator Larry Diamond speaks with H&S Dean Debra Satz. Read more about the session and watch the recording.

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Stanford law professor John Donohue and UCLA law professor and Hoover Institution visiting fellow Eugene Volokh animatedly discuss gun control during a Democracy and Disagreement session.

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Spring blooms add new color to the landscape in time for the celebration of Earth Day. At Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, a slender bee fly visits California buttercups along the preserve’s Escobar Gate Trail.

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A rainbow stretches across Jane Stanford Way between rain showers on Thursday, Feb. 1.

Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University

A starfish lies on the shore of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station, in Monterey, California. A recent study from the lab of Department of Biology professor and Hopkins researcher Chris Lowe revealed the location of a starfish’s head.

Photo by LiPo Ching/Stanford University